Wittgenstein and His Interpreters: Essays in Memory of Gordon Baker

Comprising specially commissioned essays from some of the most significant contributors to the field, this volume provides a uniquely authoritative and thorough survey of the main lines of Wittgenstein scholarship over the past 50 years, tracing the history and current trends as well as anticipating the future shape of work on Wittgenstein. Reflecting a range of different perspectives, some contributions offer an historical overview, mapping different schools and approaches to Wittgenstein interpretation. Others consider questions of methodology and style, or examine and shed new light on seminal controversies. Taken together, the essays provide a much needed overview of the complex landscape of both Wittgenstein exegesis and Wittgensteinian approaches to philosophy and will serve as an essential resource and guide for both students and scholars.

Notes on Contributors vii Acknowledgements xi List of Abbreviations xii Introduction 1 Guy Kahane, Edward Kanterian, and Oskari Kuusela 1 Perspectives on Wittgenstein: An Intermittently 37 Opinionated Survey Hans–Johann Glock 2 Wittgenstein’s Method: Ridding People of 66 Philosophical Prejudices Katherine Morris 3 Gordon Baker’s Late Interpretation of Wittgenstein 88 P. M. S. Hacker 4 The Interpretation of the Philosophical Investigations: 123 Style, Therapy, Nachlass Alois Pichler 5 Ways of Reading Wittgenstein: Observations on 145 Certain Uses of the Word ‘Metaphysics’ Joachim Schulte 6 Metaphysical/Everyday Use: A Note on a Late 169 Paper by Gordon Baker Hilary Putnam 7 Wittgenstein and Transcendental Idealism 174 A. W. Moore 8 Simples and the Idea of Analysis in the Tractatus 200 Marie McGinn 9 Words, Waxing and Waning: Ethics in/and/of the 221 Tractatus Logico–Philosophicus Stephen Mulhall 10 The Uses of Wittgenstein’s Beetle: Philosophical 248 Investigations §293 and Its Interpreters David G. Stern 11 Bourgeois, Bolshevist or Anarchist? The Reception 269 of Wittgenstein’s Philosophy of Mathematics Ray Monk 12 Wittgenstein and Ethical Naturalism 295 Alice Crary Bibliography 320 Name Index 345 Subject Index 350

Guy Kahane is Deputy Director of the Oxford Uehiro Centre for Practical Ethics at Oxford University. Edward Kanterian is lecturer in philosophy at Trinity College and Jesus College, Oxford. Oskari Kuusela is an Academy of Finland Postdoctoral Fellow at the Department of Philosophy, University of Helsinki.

“If the main function of a book like this is to stimulate readers to thoughts of their own, then it succeeds admirably in its task.”  ( Scribd Feed , 1 December 2012) "An excellent survey ... .The essays are important contributions to the scholarship of Wittgenstein interpretation." ( Philosophical Investigations , July 2009)